Ron Adams

STEM advocate, Retired Enterprise IT Consultant , Disaster Response Volunteer, civic matters, broad-spectrum enthusiast. Retweets do not imply endorsement.

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

Whatever you do…. Don’t order Snoop on a stoop from TEMU, his braids fell off straight out of the box and now he looks like R. Kelly

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several.

This is what it looks like:
A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body.

A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure.

If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions.

But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury.

They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again.

There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby.

Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless.

Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

Philadelphia DA issues warning to anyone who wants to "play militia" or engage in voter intimidation tomorrow:

"We do have the cuffs. We do have the jail cells. We do have the Philly juries. ... F around and find out."

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

If Texas officials wanted to stop the arrival of undocumented immigrants, they could try to make it impossible for them to work here. But that would devastate the state’s economy.

So instead politicians engage in border theater. https://t.co/U8ErarNgbY

[Dallas Theater Center @DallasTheater]

Celebrate with your fellow ghosts & ghouls!🎃
Enter a free raffle to win one of these fantastic prizes!

- Wine from Vampire Vineyards
- Pair of DTC Gift Tix
- Signed script & program from the cast of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
- Gift cards from local restaurants

[IntlElephantFoundatn @ElephantsIEF]

On last Halloween reminder to protect wildlife habitat when you choose your sweets 🎃
Make sure when you get your Halloween treats that you buy only RSPO certified candies. Let's prevent the spooky world where wildlife goes extinct.
📸 @cheyennemountainzoo

[FIRST @FIRSTweets]

Want the chance to have your team featured in a video celebrating the legacy of Dr. Woodie Flowers on #WalkLikeWoodie Day in October? ✌️❤️🤖 Submit a short video (:10 seconds or less) telling us what Gracious Professionalism means to you: https://t.co/h2ob3jMTEB #thatsGP

[Jonathan Oosting @jonathanoosting]

The winners of Michigan's first-ever "I Voted" sticker design contest "will be available for clerks to order and give out to voters this fall as the state’s official 2024 Presidential Election stickers." Among them:

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The owner of Coors is funding the anti-union agenda of Project 2025. If you’re buying beer for Labor Day, remember to leave these beers on the shelf:

Coors Light
Fosters
Icehouse
Keystone Light
Miller
Milwaukee’s Best
Olde English
Redd’s
Sharp’s
Steel
Yuengling

[Marc Grober @netbuoy]

Richard Feynman Creates a Simple Method for Telling Science From Pseudoscience (1966) https://t.co/54fsNku5uP

[Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea 🇺🇸 @Talyn777]

Do the antivaxxers calling for Civil War realize that they can be taken out with a rusty nail?

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

'We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems...

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.'

-Richard Feynman, "The Value of Science" (1955)

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

Only two musicians from this historic photo are still alive—Sonny Rollins (age 93) and Benny Golson (age 95).

[Ron Adams @sheriff72]

@netbuoy How many weeks have they been away?

[Ron Adams @sheriff72]

This is so cool on many levels!

[Scientific American @sciam]

Chad Mirkin’s groundbreaking work in nanoscience is enabling new materials to be built one particle at a time. Listen now and discover more about his prize-winning work. [Sponsored by @KavliPrize] https://t.co/IRhGBocAVJ

[Anna @DistractedAnna]

Tossing memetic and mimetic around in my brain like superballs

[alyssa 😬 @lyssazim]

Dearly Beloved,
people do not want QR codes sent to their phone or emails.

They want links.

QR codes are for physically posting in places that are not *inside the internet*.

That's all. Thank you.

[Ron Adams @sheriff72]

I’m curious about the specific conditions that might trigger advisories for various body parts.

[1080 KRLD @KRLD]

Moderately warm Tuesday before possible Head Advisories by weekend https://t.co/0VKB6isbPm

[Dallas Theater Center @DallasTheater]

Every seashell has a story, just like me!🐚🫧

#NationalSeashellDay #UndertheSeaatDTC #DallasTheaterCenter

[Scientific American @sciam]

Promethium, one of the rarest and most mysterious elements in the periodic table, has finally given up some crucial chemical secrets https://t.co/XqUoqLj7Ru